Tobias, NE 68453 Frost Dates
68453, near Tobias, NE: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/20, roughly 235 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 178 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Tobias, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Tobias's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/20 isn't a guarantee
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Tobias against the rest of the dataset
Tobias's growing season runs about 178 days, ranking 25,938 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NE, it ranks 92 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68453: local microclimates, on what one yard in Tobias can differ from the 68453 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Tobias's frost date answer different questions.